Ocean's Breath Plateau seal's bellow,

wistfully did chakliux touch the solid side of the lodge into which his children had been born. the berrybright eyes closed and he thought of tullik.
among the seal hunters, a woman might put her husband's things outside their lodge, to show she desired a divorce. the shelter itself, the pelts, the caches; these belonged to the wife of the hunter.
but tullik had not done these things, and he longed for her.
the call which rose was unknown; he did not know the man and as he drew close, he did not know that scent. what was clear was callyope's perfume laced thickly through the aura of this stranger and the forest also.
he drew close to rodyn's side and said nothing, implacable behind his scars.